Portrait of a girl
Class of 1925 Album, Clarence H. White School of Photography (460 W. 144th Street, NYC)

Currently not on view

Portrait of a girl,

1925

Joseph Bergsmann, American, active early 20th century
CHW S3520 ll

Information

Title
Portrait of a girl
Dates

1925

Maker
Joseph Bergsmann
Medium
Palladium or gelatin silver print?
Dimensions
image: 16.5 × 12 cm (6 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.) sheet: 18.3 × 12.8 cm (7 3/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Archives of the Clarence H. White School of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum
Object Number
CHW S3520 ll
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, New York

Inscription
Signed in graphite on sheet below image, lower right: J Bergsmann
Type
black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
tipping in, black-and-white photography
Subject
girls, figures (representations), portraits

Created by Joseph Bergsmann, the artist.; ownership assumed by Clarence H. White School of Photography, between 1914 to 1942; ownership assumed by Clarence H. White Jr., 1942 [1]; by descent to Clarence H. White Jr.’s widow, Ruth Royer White, 1978 [2]; bequest, to Princeton University Art Museum, 1983 [3].

Notes:

[1] On the occasion of the closing of the School.
[2] On the occasion of Clarence H. White Jr.’s death.
[3] Carried out by Ruth Royer White on behalf of Clarence H. White Jr.

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